Dear IG'ers,
This is a copy of a message sent to W3C Advisory Committee a few
hours ago. Further discussion may be held publicly on the Interest
Group's list.
----- Forwarded message from Susan Lesch <lesch@w3.org> -----
>
> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
>
> After nearly two years of existence of the Semantic Web Services Interest
> Group and following on the Workshop on Frameworks for Semantics in Web
> Services held in June [1][2], the Team is currently working on future
> orientations on this topic in the Web Services Activity:
>
> - Renewal of the Semantic Web Services Interest Group.
> - Beginning of new developments in the domain of using semantics
> for Web services.
>
> We noticed two main areas of interest for short-term development:
>
> (1) Gathering real-scale use cases involving semantics combined with
> the existing Web services technologies to achieve full functionality;
> analyzing these use cases for requirements for some desired properties;
> characterizing those properties to establish motivation and scope
> for a full SWS model.
>
> (2) Developing sufficiently generic annotations to specify semantics
> in Web services descriptions. These annotations would be built as an
> extension of WSDL 2.0 to add semantics to the necessary elements. As
> usual, the initial step of such annotation work should concentrate on
> defining requirements for semantics thanks to some significant Web
> services examples.
>
> While the first area of work could be undertaken by the Semantic Web Services
> Interest Group, once renewed, or a similar lightweight group or task force,
> the second proposed work should be done in a newly chartered group.
>
> We anticipate that this Working Group would be part of the Web Services Activity.
>
> Your feedback is important for the development of the charter. For technical
> discussions, we suggest using the SWS Interest Group's public list
> public-sws-ig@w3.org. For Member-only comments, we suggest having the
> discussion on member-ws@w3.org, which is open to all Members, not only AC
> representatives. Should you wish to subscribe to either list, please see the
> instructions at [3].
>
> Draft charters will be sent to this mailing list for informal technical review
> by the Membership before the Director sends a formal Call for Review of a
> proposed charter.
>
> If you have any questions about this work, please contact Carine Bournez
> <carine@w3.org> or Hugo Haas <hugo@w3.org>.
>
> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/01/ws-swsf-cfp.html
> [2] http://www.w3.org/2005/04/FSWS/workshop-report.html
> [3] http://www.w3.org/Mail/Request
>
> Thank you,
> Susan Lesch, W3C Communications Team
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